2017 NFB Convention
Orlando, Florida
Exhibitors
Product/Service Description
Listed alphabetically below are the companies and organizations participating as exhibitors at the 2017 National Federation of the Blind Convention. For each exhibitor we have listed the company or organization name, table number, product and/or service exhibited, telephone number, and website, if provided to us by the vendor.
3DPhotoWorks
Location:B25
Product or Service: 3DPhotoWorks creates tactile fine art prints for museums, science centers, and institutions.
Phone: (518) 392-8161
Website:
A T Guys, Your Assistive Technology Experts
Location:A19
Product or Service: Your home for affordable technology and gadgets for your iPhone, iPad, Android, and more. Aftershokz Trekz Titanium Bone Conduction Headphones, the new Microspeak Voice Recorder, Matias Bluetooth Keyboard, speakers, and much more.
Phone: (269) 216-4798
Website:
Ai Squared/Freedom Scientific/Optelec/The PacielloGroup
Location:B29-B36
Product or Service: VFO™ is the world's leading assistive technology provider for the visually impaired, representing Freedom Scientific, Optelec, and Ai Squared brands. With our solutions, we enable users to gain an education, obtain employment, succeed in professional careers, and live independently throughout their lives. Our commitment to providing solutions extends to our Enterprise Compliance Division, where we provide many services to help your company or organization support the needs of people with disabilities.
Phone: (800) 444-4443
Website:
Aira
Location:D6
Product or Service: Aira develops transformative remote assistive technology that connects the blind with a network of certified agents via wearable smart glasses and an augmented reality dashboard that allows agents to see what the blind person sees in real time. Agents, serving as visual interpreters for the blind, help users accomplish a wide range of daily tasks and activities—from navigating busy streets to recognizing faces and literally traveling the world.
Website: aira.io
Amazon
Location:B8
Website:amazon.com
American Printing House for the Blind
Location:A16-A18
Product or Service: APH is the world’s largest company devoted to making products for people who are visually impaired and blind, and is the official supplier of educational materials for blind students in the United States.
Phone: (800) 223-1839
Website:
AT&T
Location:D5
Website:
BAUM (USA) — home of VarioUltra
Location:D8
Product or Service: BAUM is German manufacturer of high quality technology products and solutions for people who are blind or visually impaired. We make the popular VarioUltra Braille notetakers, the VisioDesk magnifier, and more. Visit us to learn more.
Phone: (855) 620-7985
Website:
Blind Alive
Location:B24
Product or Service: Eyes Free Fitness® provides well-described audio exercise programs including cardio, yoga, pilates, weights, ballet barre, and stretching. CDs, SD cards, and thumb drives available.
Phone: (267) 474-0996
Website:blindalive.com
Bookshare, a Benetech Initiative
Location:B23
Product or Service: Bookshare is an online library for people who cannot read print text. Individuals can read in ways that work for them with books in audio, braille, large font, and more. Bookshare is FREE for all United States students with qualifying print disabilities.
Phone: (650)644-3400
Website:
Bureau of Engraving and Printing
Location:A23
Product or Service: BEP is providing currency readers, free of charge, to eligible blind and visually impaired individuals.
Phone: (202) 874-2608
Website:
C&P — Chris Park Designs
Location:B16
Product or Service: Chris Park Designs develops and manufactures assistive technology products for people with vision loss. We own core technologies for video magnifiers such as camera, optic solution, image processing HW and SW. Also, we are the cane developer and manufacturer for many organizations including National Federation of the Blind.
Phone: (949) 274-8662
Website:
Christian Record Services, Inc.
Location:C35
Product or Service: Christian Record Services, Inc. provides free reading materials in Braille, audio, and large print. The organization also sponsors summer and winter camps through National Camps for Blind Children.
Phone: (402) 488-0981
Website:
Cobrix, Learn the basics of programming by playing a game
Location:D16
Product or Service: We present the game 'The adventure on Fruit Island' to enable blind and visually impaired learners to learn the basics of computer science using everyday objects as programming commands.
Phone: (812) 955-1571
Website:cobrix.io
Colorado Center for the Blind
Location:C34
Product or Service: The Colorado Center for the Blind is an NFB training center. We provide blindness skills training to blind people of all ages. Visit our table to learn more about the Colorado Center.
Phone: (303) 778-1130
Website:cocenter.org
Duxbury Systems
Location:A13
Product or Service: Since 1976 Duxbury Systems has been the world leader in easy-to-use accessible Braille software Windows & Macintosh. For those who are experts and those who are not! Text and math print-to-BrailleandBraille-to-print for approximately 170 language variants. UEB with Nemeth is no problem. Free tactile graphic software. Supports virtually every Braille printer.
Phone: (978) 692-3000
Website:
E.A.S.Y. Tactile Graphics
Location:A20, A21
Product or Service: E.A.S.Y. produces freehand drawing technology for the blind and visually impaired. The inTACT Sketchpad and Eraser are freehand drawing tools for sale. Coming soon are the inTACT Digitizing Sketchpad, inTACT Printer, inTACT Drawing Tools, and inTACT worksheets.
Phone: (802) 399-5065
Website:easytactilegraphics.com
Educational Testing Service
Location:B17
Phone: (609) 683-2657
Website:ets.org
EmesArmy
Location:B7
Phone: (703) 586-5733
Website: EmesArmy.etsy.com
En-Vision America
Location:D11
Product or Service: En-Vision America is an innovative technology company enhancing the lives of visually impaired, print impaired, and blind people. We have been a pioneer in the assistive tech field inventing and perfecting audible barcode scanners including audible, large print. and Braille labels.
Phone: (800) 890-1180
Website:
Feel Good, Inc.
Location:C6
Product or Service: Feel Good, Inc. provides portable TENS (transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation) units that offer a wide variety of benefits, including alleviating back, nerve, post-op and diabetic pain, and migraines.
Phone: (407) 986-3351
Website:
Google, Inc.
Location:A5, A6
Product or Service: Google is an American multinational technology company specializing in internet-related services and products that include online advertising technologies, search, cloud computing, software, and hardware. Google's mission is to make the world's information universally accessible and useful.
Website:
Guide Dogs for the Blind
Location:C12
Product or Service: Please come by and visit us at the Guide Dogs for the Blind table where you will learn about our FREE program and services, including information about guide dog readiness,our eligibility criteria, the application process, our support services including veterinary financial assistance, and take away some great information and GDB giveaways.
Phone: (360) 433-8107
Website:
Guide Dogs of America
Location:D2
Product or Service: Guide Dogs of America is dedicated to its mission to provide guide dogs and instruction in their use, free of charge, to blind and visually impaired men and women from the United States and Canada, so that they may continue to pursue their goals with increased mobility and independence.
Phone: (818) 833-6428
Website:
Guiding Eyes for the Blind
Location:A15
Product or Service: Guiding Eyes breeds, raises, trains, and matches guide dogs with blind and visually impaired people from the United States and Canada and beyond.
Phone: (914) 243-2210
Website:
Hadley Institute for the Blind and Visually Impaired
Location:D14
Product or Service: Get a "grip" on what is NEW at Hadley: UEB transition, Braille music, iFocus seminars/video I-device training, entrepreneurial and employment skills, Low Vision Focus @ Hadley, and so much more!
Phone: (847) 784-2812
Website:hadley.edu
HIMS
Location:A11, A12
Product or Service: HIMS, a global leader in assistive technology, will display the BrailleSense Family including BrailleSense U2, BrailleSense QWERTY, BrailleSense MINI, and our newest notetaker, BrailleSense Polaris.We will also demonstrate Braille displays including Braille EDGE 40 and Smart Beetle.We will also showcase our Blaze DAISY players with OCR and our wide variety of handheld, portable, and transportable video magnifiers.
Phone: (512) 837-2000
Website:
HumanWare
Location:B10-B15
Product or Service: HumanWare is the global leader in assistive technology for people who are blind or have low vision. HumanWare offers a wide range of innovative products, including the BrailleNote Touch, first Google certified Braille tablet; the iOS compatible Brailliant Braille displays; Victor Reader®, the world's leading family of digital audiobook players; the unique Prodigi® family of desktop and portable vision and reading systems; and the ultra-portable explore line of electronic handheld magnifier.
Phone: (888) 723-7273
Website:
iFactory
Location:D4
Product or Service: We're an interactive agency with proven experience designing sites that are accessible to all users.
Phone: (857) 317-6720
Website:ifactory.com
Independent Living Aids
Location:A25, A26
Product or Service: Forty years strong: Keeping life MAGNIFIED, AMPLIFIED, SIMPLIFIED, and always in MOTION. We are your number one source for independence. Stay active, independent, and make your life easier with the superb selection of low-vision aids, tools, and technology from ILA. We carry everything for the blind and visually impaired, including canes and mobility aids, magnifiers, talking watches, talking clocks, talking bibles, large print books, smoke detectors, Braille products, talking cooking gadgets, voice recognition software, and much, much more. In particular magnifiers and talking products make wonderful gifts for grandparents and for individuals who are blind or who suffer from macular degeneration, diabetes, or arthritis.
Phone: (516) 450-3813
Website:
Information
Location:A1-A4
International Christian Braille Mission
Location:D15
Product or Service: Christian Braille literature.
Phone: (606) 315-5704
Website:icbminc.org
Irie-AT
Location:C10, C11
Product or Service: IRIE-AT brings the best assistive technology training and products to people with vision disabilities in order to enhance daily lives and create vocational opportunities.
Phone: (888) 308-0059
Website:irie-at.com
JW.ORG
Location:D12
Product or Service: Our association is a nonprofit, charitable, humanitarian, and philanthropic organization. Jehovah's Witnesses distribute literature and publish web content, free of charge, for educational purposes. Our Bible-based literature is now available in over 800 languages and appeals to persons of all ages and races.
Phone: (845) 744-6000
Website:
Key2Access
Location:A41
Product or Service: Key2Access eliminates the need to lose your alignment and time looking for the pedestrian button, as now, once you’ve reached the street corner, you can simply point and click your phone or remote in the direction you want to go to request to cross.
Phone: (613) 979-1219
Website:key2access.com
KNFB Reader
Location:B28
Product or Service: KNFB Reader is a mobile app that reads print aloud. Just point, shoot, and read! Available for iOS, Android, and now Windows 10, including Windows 10 PCs and laptops.Stop by and see it in action!
Phone: (410) 659-9314
Website:
Kurzweil Education
Location:B19
Product or Service: At Kurzweil Education we believe every learner deserves the opportunity to unlock their potential. Our literacy technology offers multisensory approaches to reading, comprehension, study skills, writing, and test-taking so everyone can become independent, confident learners who can achieve rigorous academic goals.
Phone: (520) 275-3858
Website:
Leader Dogs for the Blind
Location:C26
Product or Service: Leader Dog provides guide dog training, accelerated orientation and mobility training, a summer youth program, and auditory GPS training to increase the ability of the user to travel independently in new environments. All free of charge to clients.
Phone: (248) 218-6358
Website:leaderdog.org
Louisiana Center for the Blind & NFB of Louisiana
Location:C13
Product or Service: Information about the life-changing programs offered by the Louisiana Center for the Blind; sale of Louisiana spices and products; BRAILLE ROCKS and CANES ROCK t-shirts; NFB and LCB swag, embroidered blankets, totebags, Yeti tumblers, LCB play tickets and a selection of past LCB plays.
Phone: (318) 436-9123
Website:
Low VisionAids, Inc.
Location:A22
Product or Service: Adaptive technology devices designed to serve the vision impaired and blind. Come visit us for the newest in the marketplace.
Phone: (800) 364-1610
Website:
Lutheran Braille Workers
Location:D1
Product or Service: LBW offers Bibles and Christ-centered publication in Braille, large print, and audio to those who are blind or vision impaired, free of charge.
Phone: (909) 795-8977
Website:
Lyft, Inc.
Location:A14
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Materia Magica
Location:A42
Product or Service: Materia Magica is a free online fantasy adventure game where your choices shape the world around you. Play with family, friends, and people all over the world. Available for VI and sighted players.
Phone: (512) 522-3551
Website:materiamagica.com/vi
MegaVoice — Audio Bibles for the Blind
Location:D19
Product or Service: MegaVoice, creators of the world’s first solar-powered audio Bible, has just unveiled the Envoy Elite, its most advanced line of audio recorder/players to date. The Envoy Elite is ideal for blind and visually impaired people because it provides a way to record notes and messages for later listening.
Phone: (757) 634-5230
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Microsoft
Location:B3, B4
Product or Service: Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more, which includes creating and delivering technology that is accessible and functional for people of all abilities.Toward this effort Microsoft is working aggressively to enhance the level of accessibility in our products. Visit our exhibition table to learn more.
Website:
Mobience
Location:D3
Product or Service: Mobience provides RiVO which is a gadget with twenty solid buttons designed to help blind or visually impaired people use smartphones sensibly.
Phone: +82-10-3401-1910
Website:mobience.com
National Association of Blind Merchants
Location:C9
Product or Service: Promoting entrepreneurism for people who are blind.
Phone: (908) 464-5359
Website:blindmerchants.org
National Association of Blind Veterans
Location:A27
Product or Service: Visit the National Association of Blind Veterans table for brochures and information about blind veterans.
Phone: (321) 948-1466
Website:
National Association of Guide Dog Users (NAGDU)
Location:C31
Product or Service: A division of the National Federation of the Blind.
Phone: (813) 626-2789
Website:
National Braille Press
Location:B20- B22
Product or Service: Braille and tactile books and products for technology, cookbooks, educational items, children's books, business to business; and the B2G, an Android-based refreshable Braille computer and optional smartphone.
Phone: (617) 266-6160
Website:
National Federation of the Blind Human Services
Location:C32
Product or Service: The Human Services division of the National Federation of the Blind is a proud division of students, paraprofessionals, and professionals in a variety of human services arenas.
Phone: (813) 625-1850
Website:nfbhumanservices.org
National Industries for the Blind
Location:B9
Product or Service: NIB is a nonprofit organization focused on enhancing the opportunities for economic and personal independence of people who are blind, primarily through creating, sustaining, and improving employment.
Phone: (703) 310-0500
Website:
NFB Community Service Division
Location:C30
Product or Service: Making community service accessible to the blind through advocacy and action. "Shining in Service": A diamond ring/earring set can be yours by participating in our raffle! $10 per ticket.
Phone: (415) 215-9809
Website:nfbcommunityservice.org
NFB Deaf-Blind Division
Location:A28
Product or Service: National Association of the Deaf-Blind is a proud division of the National Federation of the Blind.Living with a combined hearing and vision loss presents unique challenges, and we offer solutions in order to live the life we want. Hanes T-shirts: The new, updated NFB logo is to printed on the front where a pocket is usually placed.The back of the shirts are to be printed with the fully raised "puffy" white Braille alphabet. Afghan raffle tickets will be available for sale, drawing will occur on banquet. Winner doesn't have to be present to win.
Phone: (856) 285-4747
Website:
NFB National Association of Blind Students
Location:C14
Product or Service: Come learn more about resources for blind students, grab some free literature, and support our students across the country by purchasing some great items!
Phone: (203) 273-8463
Website:
NFB of Alabama
Location:C16
Product or Service: We will be selling snack bags and raffle tickets for a 50/50 raffle.
Phone: (205) 356-5658
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NFB of Alaska
Location:C27
Product or Service: We will be selling Alaskan smoked salmon, Alaskan smoked beef jerky, reindeer and caribou sausage, and Midnight Sun hoodies with Whozit on them to benefit the NFB of Alaska.
Phone: (907) 538-9826
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NFB of Arkansas
Location:C24
Product or Service: We will be selling NFB T-shirts in several colors. Jumbo tote bags in several colors with the NFB logo design. Paracord Stylus Holders, bracelets, and keyrings. Pick your colors.We can make them any size. Ozark delight lollipops.
Phone: (479) 841-6081
Website:nfbar.org
NFB of California
Location:C17
Product or Service: The NFB of California will be selling iPhone and Android charging cables as well as mini power strips.
Phone: (323) 252-9188
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NFB of Colorado
Location:C33
Product or Service: NFB of Colorado will be selling various items, pins, raffle tickets, and snack items.
Phone: (303) 504-5979
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NFB of Florida
Location:C18
Product or Service: Lucky 7 raffle and other surprises.
Phone: (305) 972-8529
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NFB of Georgia
Location:A39
Phone: (229) 254-6630
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NFB of Hawaii
Location:A40
Product or Service: NFB of Hawaii table brings paradise to you. Enjoy Hawaiian chocalates, macadamia nuts, Kona coffee, and other beautiful island favorites to enhance your living style.